| Date: | (2018-) |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The program aims to facilitate access, continuity and permanence in formal education, training and formal labor market, through: middle and higher education, productive training and employability of adolescents, youth and adults in poverty or extreme poverty situation from rural or urban areas of the country. Through monetary transferences, grants will be delivered by banking channels and subject to compliance of co-responsibilities by the participants of the program. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Social Grant Program is aimed to population living in poverty or extreme poverty situation from rural or urban areas in the country, that are between the following ages: Middle Education Social Grant for adolescents and youth aged 11 to 24; Higher Education Social Grant, aims to youth aged 16 to 28; First Job Social Grant addressed to youth aged 18 to 25; and Artisan Social Grant to elderly, preferably women. |
| Area of intervention: | Technical and professional training Remedial education (Leveling studies) Support to self-employed work Indirect job creation |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical Direct means test |
| Instrument of selection: | Application form for Benefit in a Social Program |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Ministerial Agreement N. 151-2018 |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Social Development |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Social Development |
| Source of funding: | Government of Guatemala |
1) First Job Social Grant
| Recipient(s): | Adolescents and youth aged 16 to 25 from rural or urban areas, living in poverty or extreme poverty situation and unemployment |
| Mode of delivery: | Bank transfer |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Monthly |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct Participant |
| Conditionalities: | A Letter of Commitment is signed at the beginning of the program, |
| Sanctions: | The grant will be withdrawn when the user does not comply with the co-responsibilities |
| Comments: | The monetary transfer will be delivered for a maximum of 5 unpostponable months |
| Description: | The program aims to promote integration into formal labor market of adolescents and youth aged 16 to 25 from urban and rural areas, living in poverty situation, extreme poverty and unemployment, through the temporary hiring as apprentices for 5 months. The employer will pay an equivalent of 40% of the minimum wage in force in the country, plus an incentive bonus of Q.250 to the apprentice, who also receives a monetary transference part of the program. |
| Amount : | Up to Q.2.000 |
2) Middle Education Social Grant
| Recipient(s): | Adolescents and youth aged 11 to 24 from urban or rural areas who, due their situation of poverty or extreme poverty, have limitations for the permanence and continuity of studies at a middle educational level |
| Mode of delivery: | Bank transfer |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Annual |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct Participant |
| Conditionalities: | Attendance to courses for a minimum of 80% during the academic cycle Approve the school year, being user of the program Submit all required documentation within the period established by the program Update data at least once a year |
| Sanctions: | The grant will be withdrawn when the user does not comply with the co-responsibilities |
| Description: | Promote the permanence and continuity of adolescents and youth so that they could finish their studies at a middle educational level, in order to support their studies in public or private institutions recognized for the Ministry of Education. |
| Amount : | Up to Q.2.500 |
3) Higher Education Social Grant
| Recipient(s): | Youth aged 16 to 28 from urban or rural areas who, due their situation of poverty or extreme poverty, have limitations for the permanence and continuity of studies at a superior school level |
| Mode of delivery: | Bank transfer |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Annual |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct Participant |
| Conditionalities: | Submit document certifying course assignment, attendance control and approved courses |
| Sanctions: | The grant will be withdrawn when the user does not comply with the co-responsibilities |
| Description: | Promote the permanency and continuity of adolescents and youth so that they finish their studies of higher education in national universities. |
| Amount : | Up to Q.2.500 |
4) Craftspersons Social Grant
| Recipient(s): | Persons of legal age, preferable women in a situation of poverty or extreme poverty and labor informality from rural and urban areas who possess skills for the elaboration of handicrafts or several craft. |
| Mode of delivery: | Bank transfer |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Annual |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct Participant |
| Conditionalities: | Attendance to trainings for a minimum of 80% Present a sample of the elaborate product |
| Sanctions: | The grant will be withdrawn when the user does not comply with the co-responsibilities |
| Description: | The objective of the program is to strengthen and develop people's skills through training in handcrafted products in order to improve their incomes and share business contacts, to promote their products in the market, with the support of public and private institutions, international cooperation agencies and non-governmental organizations |
| Amount : | Up to Q.1.200 |
